The Sweatshop

So far as children and Dan Deacon are concerned, music exists primarily to be enjoyed, and enjoyment is directly proportional to a listener's involvement...

Online mail order service Cloth Ear Music is a boon for fans of lo-fi psychedelia, drone experimentation and handmade recordings. Operated anonymously...

We labour over choice in this city weighed down by department stores. The buffet of designer labels. The smorgasbord of coloured thread. The countless...

This exhibition brings together four Melbourne artists whose common thread is an exploration of shame, embarrassment, pain, neuroses and the limits to...

Meet Kenji Kawakami, designer, pathological mail-order enthusiast and author of this book. Kawakami is the founder of Chindogu, the art of the 'unuseless'...

'Sheer' and 'joy' are perhaps the two words that best describe the experience of turning off Smith Street, walking twenty meters, and falling into the...

Julien Temple has a long career in music video, and directed the fascinating Sex Pistols doco, The Filth And The Fury, back in 2000. It used snippets...

What would double your happiness in a city bar? A cocktail list to make Bryan Brown shake in his martini glass? How about a venue that isn't suffocated...

Yes, more old or rare films are coming out on DVD all the time and yes, you have a flatscreen TV and 5.1 sound and yes, we're all very impressed. What's...

So we are standing in an opaque glass cube, cantilevering out three metres, but 300m above Southbank when the glass goes clear and there is a second of...

If you, like Kate Hannaford of MOTH Design, were opening a temporary fashion retail and exhibition space in an old city warehouse, would you call it ‘MOTH...

This small exhibition in South Yarra is only on for a few more days, but is a compelling enough concept to make the journey. Stephen Haley's Mesh is...

Gentlemen, start your engines. Or, in case you don't drive a '68 Lancia, shine your shoes, chalk your pool cue and thank your lucky stars that James Cameron...

It’s not often you hear ‘non profit’ and ‘music promotion’ in the same sentence, but it’s not often you come across...

The last movie from Parisian duo Daft Punk was 2003's Interstella 5555, a musical lovefest featuring tracks from their album Discovery and a hefty...

Book-slash-magazine that it is, Dumbo feather pass it on could easily have been dubbed a boogazine. Luckily, founding editor and one-woman-publishing-house...

One of the many confusing aspects of the current hype around the movie 300is its rating: "CONTAINS COMPUTER-GENERATED VIOLENCE”. Hasclassification...

Most of us barely have enough money for a daily tram ticket, let alone to cultivate an art collection. But when an original work that lasts FOREVER can...

Many people have said it: "Why is there no tram from Brunswick to Fitzroy, maybe with a super stop at Carlton?" (Mental note: whoever setup...

It sounds simple. Four young guys decide to take a trip overseas in celebration of a mate’s upcoming wedding, and for a bit of cultural experience...